Tuesday, January 23, 2007

rich text editor for web

lately have been looking for some free and crossbrowser rich text editors. Out of all the variety, picked out two which seemed the best:

1. TinyMCE
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/
pros:
nice interface, loads faster, has a lot of commands (huge number of them). it's a practically winword editor under web. *amazed*. Has API. All browsers supported (even opera and safari)
cons:
the image and file browsers are commercial. Although it is possible to link your own filebrowser as plugin. But I couldn't find any freeware ones. And who wants to code, if there is something ready and for free? Therefore..

2. FCKeditor
http://www.fckeditor.net/

pros: also very powerful, a lot of commands, API. And has a free file and image browser included.
cons: interface is a little bit slow and loads a little bit slower than Tiny. Neither Opera nor Safari are supported.


I personally have picked the FCKeditor, mostly because of the free filebrowser. And it's not my problem if someone likes to use stupid browsers ;)
Othewise would have picked the TinyMCE...

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